Monday, April 09, 2007

I spotted this huge fish sculpture one night in a galerie window. You can order it in a variety of sizes.

Or find a more managable size and edible too atGerard Mulot's.This print shop joined in the April tradition with a window full of poissons prints. The story goes on the 1st, you'd run around pinning paper fish on the back of unsuspecting folks, like your teacher or parent. A kind of April Fool's day joke, called Poissons d'Avril. No one bothers anymore but there are still plenty of fish to be seen in the chocolate shops and galleries.

Blame It On Paris asked me specifically to find her a chocolate shrimp. I hope a Langoustine (an overgrown shrimp) will do.As part of the April fish tale - small cello bags of chocolate friture or little fish are sold. They're made to fill the big hollow chocolate eggs, hens, bunnies or this school of fish. They're straight forward dark chocolate shapes and yummy. I succombed in the name of research and brought home 2 little bags - seashells, snails, shrimp, turtles and fish of course. I wish I'd brought more.

Here's marbelized chocolate fish again fromGerard Mulot. And finally the "FISH n'HEN" from Jean-Paul Hevin, joined together as he says in a shot-gun wedding and filled with those chocolate fritures.Where are the Fritures? Here what's left - Fritures are really little fried fish oft served in Provence!

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Such beautiful creatures, and as you said in a previous post, that combination of artistry and sense of humor is irrestistible (I find that in Vienna, too - well, we've been touched by the French in the not so far past, so to speak *g*). That "chocolate friture or little fish" gives a whole new meaning to Goldfish (anybody suggesting to Pepperidge Farm to inaugurate a special chocolate Easter edition next year?).

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